Topic suggested by Krishnan on Thu Sep 10 17:19:46 .
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Let us discuss detective fiction

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• From: Pasupathy (@ hse-hamilton-ppp190254.sympatico.ca) on: Tue Nov 11 17:58:20 EST 2003
  
  Mrinalini,
  :-)) You should take Cheyney with a pinch of salt!
  (Was Eddie Constantine the actor who acted as Lemmy
  Caution?) 'Modern' detectives are more violent or
  obsessed with sx..
  
  Cheyney's Dark series(Spy ) was perhaps his best. Slim Callaghan stories (PI) were also reissued recently.
  
  I think you like the 'gentlemen' type of detectives:-))
  Of course, Saint is also my favourite; so are Toff,
  Norman Conquest, Falcon, Bulldog Drummond, Richard Hannay, Blackshirt ..et al) Hope you have seen the website dedicated to Saint. Edgar Wallace's JGReeder ..wonderful creation. His Justmen
  series.. was an important landmark .
  
  Have fun. "Old is Gold"!
  
  
• From: Mrinalini (@ 219.65.185.89) on: Sat Nov 15 11:39:54 EST 2003
  
  Bulldog Drumond, Norman Conquest, the Saint and
  Sexton Blake...ah..those were the days.
  As a pig-tailed schoolgirl, I would pore over these treasured books, burning the midnight oil(well, actually till eleven p.m. but nowadays even three a.m. does not seem so late).
  I would buy a Sexton Blake book for ten annas out of my train fare home, and go home by the crawling tram for one anna, and get a royal scolding for my lateness.
  All these lovely books were confiscated by my father when we moved house. I had almost the entire collection of the Saint(one rupee eight annas each!), and I have not been able to get even a quarter of them when I could afford to buy them much much later.
  Thank you Mr Pasupathy for suggesting that I should access the website on the Saint. I was not aware it existed, and I saw it.
  Of course I take Cheyney with a pinch of salt - Epsom salt!
  I went to the Sherlock Homes Museum in London - where?- at Baker Street of course. With an oldfashioned English restaurant next door serving traditional British food.
  There were three floors of memories, anecdotes, pictures, photographs of various actors who have played the role of Sherlock Holmes, clothes, Sherlock's lived-in looking furnished rooms,
  cap and coat, meerschaum pipe, and an interesting guide to show us the various things.
  We had an English tea with scones, jam and cream and cucumber sandwiches afterwards at the next-door restaurant.
  I have not seen the latest Sherlock Holmes movie, I believe it is a takeoff and should be amusing.
  We could do nowadays with the patriotism shown in the Saint books, and follow his principles with advantage to all but the villainous.
  Alas that the world is worldlywise.
  Alas that now sins do pall.
  Oh for a cheery Hey Nonny No
  And a soaring skylark's call.
  
  
• From: Isa Y. Bashir (@ ) on: Wed Mar 24 06:12:26
  
  Please can someone who has any collection of Peter Cheney detective novels kindly put it (them) on this web for free downloading.
  I looooove Lemmy Caution!
  
  
• From: soughtout (@ 63-100-199-62.reverse.newskies.net) on: Thu Apr 29 20:55:09
  
  please i need some Hardley chase novels. could you send me some.
  
  
• From: Paramkathir (@ wc09.mtnk.rnc.net.cable.rogers.com) on: Mon Aug 23 19:22:53
  
  Isa Y,Bashir and Mrinalini. You love Lemmy Caution and Slim Callaghan. I too love them. I also love Belamy.I blame my age for fogoting the Title of the novel in which Belamy comes as the Detective. It was the top story by my highly favourate auther Peter Cheney. I left my complete library in SriLanka and came to Canada.I was having almost all the novels by Cheney in my library but unfortunately I do not have even a single copy of those wonderful creations.Whenever I go to Book Stalls I use to search for Cheney in vain. I cant find Cheneys novels in Canada.
  
  
• From: Lavanya (@ 202.56.229.85) on: Wed Sep 22 05:54:06 EDT 2004
  
  Guys, am trying to get peter cheney novels myself. tried the pan mcmillan website but they dont even LIST him!!...i remember poring over his books and loving the entire experience. and i agree that the Dark series was fantastic! esp. Dark Hero...
  I have old threadbare fallin to pieces books that i somehow managed to read when i was a teen, but which defy thumbing now..all of 'em my dad's..part of the man of the world thing in his days i guess!
  PLEASE share info on his books..where to get 'em etc
  
  

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